<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58223]]></link><description><![CDATA[How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hesitated to do it last year, but finally decided we need to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hesitated to do it last year, but finally decided we need to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25045]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh. The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me. The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I picked up the 'HTML Manual of Style,' and for inspiration I picked up Negroponte's 'Being Digital,' got on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I picked up the 'HTML Manual of Style,' and for inspiration I picked up Negroponte's 'Being Digital,' got on a plane, flew to the Bahamas and sat on a beach and read these books, ... And a week later, came home and started building the Web site myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65097]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This could be our new favorite place to play. I hope it's not long till we come back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This could be our new favorite place to play. I hope it's not long till we come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A passerby named Larry, our angel, pulled the debris off and got Casey out and took him to safety and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A passerby named Larry, our angel, pulled the debris off and got Casey out and took him to safety and then came back and got me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many great actions are committed in small struggles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many great actions are committed in small struggles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they'vebeenhurt before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36498]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33242]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in Bossier City became full.] We will house the overflow from CenturyTel, ... Right now they're at 55 to 60 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3569]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is praised by some, blamed by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is praised by some, blamed by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some comfort there is some value out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird took from that crown one thorn.   To soothe the dear Redeemer's throbbing head,    That bird did what she could; His blood, 'tis said,     Down dropping, dyed her tender bosom red.      Since then no wanton boy disturbs her nest;       Weasel nor wild cat will her young molest;        All sacred deem the bird of ruddy breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain,  He that is beaten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19712]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain,  He that is beaten may be said   To lie in Honour's truckle-bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality oflife that's far below what you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, do nowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51045]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, do nowt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48418]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, crowding out tends to mitigate the effects of fiscal policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38032]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, crowding out tends to mitigate the effects of fiscal policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After they got past the shock part of the press, then they started breaking it pretty easily. So we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39721]]></link><description><![CDATA[After they got past the shock part of the press, then they started breaking it pretty easily. So we had to get out of that for a while. It was as good a start was we wanted for the first five minutes. Then we gave up a foul here and a foul there and put them to the free throw line. The Stinson girl is tough, she was hitting free throws. All of them are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came here. There was all kinds of people out back, bringing guns in upstairs. And they said grab 'em, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came here. There was all kinds of people out back, bringing guns in upstairs. And they said grab 'em, and took 'em upstairs, walked out and there was police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time we've been in a competition where it was this close. It just makes everything count that much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43105]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48004</guid></item></channel></rss>